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Monday, April 4, 2011

The Miracle Of A Baby

A little less than twenty years ago, I paced nervously in the upper halls of an old Puertorican hospital, praying like most young fathers that God was watching and would see another one of his precious daughters safely into this precarious existence. My Father was expected to arrive from Utah, but hadn't yet, and having looked so forward to his always unfailing strength while awaiting my fourth child, I began to wallow in worry of a cornucopia of the dreaded "What If"s". Two years earlier, Kent had blessed our lives, but his arrival and early days of life had passed with fear and trembling accompanied by much prayer and fasting in hopes of him even being able to survive the first week, so you might imagine the worries my anticipation of another delivery would conjure up.

I was a mess, and when my father finally stepped from the elevator to join me I in my wait, words cannot express the lift his presence alone supplied. I love my dad, ...Mom too, but in that moment, something about his strong embrace and sacred mantle of fatherhood, which I may add, he has always carried with honor and dignity, was just the thing to set my convulsing heart to rest. Together we endured the next few tenuous minutes until Diana was wheeled from the delivery room in a small cart on her way to the nursery. She was a miracle baby, sent to us on the heels of a heartbreaking miscarriage only a few weeks before her conception, and to see her alive and well was nothing short of perfect.

Today, I again stood in the hallway outside the delivery room waiting to hear the first cries of a baby, but this time it was with my lovely Marianne beside me, as we hoped for the blessings of heaven to attend my once infant daughter of twenty years ago as she delivered little Jordyn, our first grand baby into the world. Like exuberant school kids, we strained our ears for sounds of progress from within the closed doors, and nearly leaped out of our pants at our grand daughter's robust cry. Sealing the moment with a tender kiss, Marianne and I silently reflected back on the precious first moments with our own wonderful children as they each opened their mouths filling the air with the announcement of their arrival. What a glorious gift God gives us, to have this blessed opportunity of family. I thank him from the bottom of my heart, as I'm sure my sweet Marianne does.

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Recent updates on Search For Yesterday release dates.

Search For Yesterday has gone to print and the official release date has been set for the 14th of April!

What this means is that on April 14th, Stores nation wide will have access to the book, and will at their discression and on their own time line make copies available to the general public through their store locations and e-stores. Book store sponsored book signing events will follow beginning four to six weeks later.

Unfortunately, the official release of a book is more of a process than an event, so I appologize for the wait. In the mean time, you may contact me at quinnuntied@gmail.com or subscribe to this blog for updates and purchasing options directly through me.

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Two Years

Two years ago to the day, after bidding goodbye to my birthday guests, I recluded to the den and plunked out the conclusion of Search For Yesterday, my first novel. Today, holding the finished proof copy in my hand for the first time, the deep satisfaction and sense of accomplishment that lifted my spirit so powerfully that night, is even further amplified. When I placed the final quotation mark and settled back to enjoy the exhilleration of that first in a lifetime moment three years ago, I just sat there in shear revelry, wanting to scream to the world what I was feeling, while at the same time not wanting to break the sweetness surrounding me. Choosing to remain alone for the time being, I embarked on a trip down memory lane, revisiting naustalgia left there by so many wonderful people, stopping by places and bench marks in my life that had all contributed to the where-with-all needed for me to produce the content of my story. More significant, however, than the fact that I had actually produced an original manuscript, was the intense desire to write more. All I had been told about the improbability of ever being published mattered little, nor did it discourage me from starting a second, third and forth book.

Now, as the release date for Search For Yesterday nears, I am currently working on my sixth novel, and in light of the many aspiring writers who, upon learning of my experience, have shared with me their own ambitions, I thought a blog might be an enjoyable forum where I might help to lift, and inspire others who wish to realize some measure of success with their own attempts of self expression.